When this fascinating story begins, Yu Asakura is just another college student fretting about girls and grades. By the time it ends, he's an accomplished assassin who'll rape and murder a traumatized innocent without remorse. In fact, by the time Hunter, the owner of the gun that drove Asakura mad, returns to claim it, the young student has racked up an impressive list of cruelties and depravities, including sex with his own mother.

It all begins with a classic briefcase mix-up after Asakura and Hunter run into one another in the subway. Each man grabs the wrong briefcase, and both of their lives change, although Asakura's far more so than that of the professional killer, whose identity he soon assumes and whose beautiful partner he's soon banging.

Retailing: Intrigue and the powers of possession combined with violence and sex.